This is not another fun re-write of an old fairy tale. As much as I enjoyed giving Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty…

The Little Mermaid was religious allegory written by Hans Christian Anderson. It’s about the rewards in the afterlife for women…

In the Grimm Brothers’ version of Cinderella (quotes from their story are underlined), her mother dies in the first sentence…

Sleeping Beauty is perhaps the least interesting of all the princess stories. In the Grimm Brother’s version, the baby princess…

This is a slightly edited extract of the introductory chapter, called Princess Myths in the Modern World. It tracks the…

In the original folktale about Snow White, which even the Grimm Brothers had to sanitise, Snow White’s evil queen was…